Veterans

Cecil Walkley has run against the man who broke the four-minute mile, cared for Idi Amin and worked with John Wayne. Now 88 years young, he still pounds the track in suburban Perth every Thursday night.

When Ray Whitby and his navy colleagues stepped onto the Montebello Islands wearing shorts, sandals and short-sleeved shorts — just after Britain had wrapped-up its nuclear weapons testing in 1958 — their lives would be changed forever.

Local media reports say a man wearing body armour and armed with an automatic weapon had entered the Veterans Home of California in Yountville . Police say they have locked down the sprawling grounds of the home and closed access to it.

Vikings star Travis Fimmel will be stepping it up a level in the battle stakes when he walks onto a film set in southern Queensland next month to play real-life war hero Lieutenant Colonel Harry Smith.

Jacqui Lambie was a soldier and teenage mother who battled injury, depression and alcohol dependency before launching her colourful political career. She was forced out of the Senate during the dual citizenship saga, but says she’ll fight tooth and nail to regain her seat.

Horse trainer Joe Hughes has an ambitous plan. He wants to train 70 wild brumbies in just seven days. He's working on remote Mundrabilla Station, in the middle of the Nullabor in Western Australia. Read more